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shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem be- 2 And if they shall say unto thee: Whither
cause of the famine and the sword, and there shall we go forth? thou shalt say to them: Thus
shall be none to bury them: they and their wives, saith the Lord: Such as are for death, to death:
their sons and their daughters, and I will pour and such as are for the sword, to the sword: and
out their own wickedness upon them. such as are for famine, to famine: and such as
17 And thou shalt speak this word to them: are for captivity, to captivity.
Let my eyes shed down tears night and day, and 3 And I will visit them with four kinds, saith
let them not cease, because the virgin daughter the Lord: The sword to kill, and the dogs to
of my people is afflicted with a great affliction, tear, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts of
with an exceeding grievous evil. the earth, to devour and to destroy.
18 If I go forth into the fields, behold the slain 4 And I will give them up to the rage of all
with the sword: and if I enter into the city, be- the kingdoms of the earth: because of Manasses
hold them that are consumed with famine. The the son of Ezechias the king of Juda, for all that
prophet also and the priest are gone into a land he did in Jerusalem.
which they knew not. 5 For who shall have pity on thee, O
19 Hast thou utterly cast away Juda, or hath Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who
thy soul abhorred Sion? why then hast thou shall go to pray for thy peace?
struck us, so that there is no healing for us? we 6 Thou hast forsaken me, saith the Lord, thou
have looked for peace, and there is no good: and art gone backward: and I will stretch out my
for the time of healing, and behold trouble. hand against thee, and I will destroy thee: I am
20 We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, weary of entreating thee.
the iniquities of our fathers, because we have 7 And I will scatter them with a fan in the
sinned against thee. gates of the land: I have killed and destroyed
21 Give us not to be a reproach, for thy name’s my people, and yet they are not returned from
sake, and do not disgrace in us the throne of thy their ways.
glory: remember, break not thy covenant with 8 Their widows are multiplied unto me above
us. the sand of the sea: I have brought upon them
22 Are there any among the graven things of against the mother of the young man a spoiler at
noonday: I have cast a terror on a sudden upon
the Gentiles that can send rain? or can the heav-
ens give showers? art not thou the Lord our God, the cities.
whom we have looked for? for thou hast made 9 She that hath borne seven is become weak,
her soul hath fainted away: her sun is gone down,
all these things.
while it was yet day: she is confounded, and
ashamed: and the residue of them I will give up
Chapter 15 to the sword in the sight of their enemies, saith
the Lord.
And the Lord said to me: If Moses and Samuel 10 Woe is me, my mother: why hast thou
shall stand before me, my soul is not towards borne me a man of strife, a man of contention to
this people: cast them out from my sight, and all the earth? I have not lent on usury, neither
let them go forth. hath any man lent to me on usury: yet all curse